the war in ukraine and differences emerging between nato allies over whether controversial cluster munitions should be sent to kyiv. an announcement by washington on a new package of weapons including cluster munitions is expected in the coming hours. kyiv has been pressing for the weapons for its counteroffensive. but cluster bombs are banned by many countries around the world because of the danger they pose to civilians sometimes years after a conflict ends. germany has voiced opposition to such a move and humanitarian organisations have urged both russia and ukraine to avoid cluster munitions completely. let s hear from jens stoltenberg. it is for individual allies to make decisions on what type of weapons. all allies agree on the delivery of weapons and ammunition to ukraine and allies are delivering an unprecedented level of weapons to support ukraine. germany and many other allies are delivering different types of ammunition, weapons to ukraine. but when it come
like several other nato countries is signed up to a convention that bans their use. on friday, president biden made what he called the difficult decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine. he arrives in the uk later on saturday. rishi sunak is playing down any differences. well, the uk is a signatory to a convention which prohibits the production or use of cluster munitions, and discourages their use. we will continue to do our part to support ukraine against russia s illegal and unprovoked invasion. we have done that by providing heavy battle tanks and most recently long range weapons, hopefully all countries can continue to support ukraine, russia s act of barbarism is causing untold suffering to millions of people, it s right that we collectively stand up to it and i will be heading off to the nato summit next next week where we will be discussing with our allies, how we can strengthen our support for ukraine. so what is the convention on cluster munitions? it s an
on friday, president biden made what he called the difficult decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine. he arrives in the uk later on saturday. rishi sunak is playing down any differences. well, the uk is a signatory to a convention which prohibits the production or use of cluster munitions, and discourages their use. we will continue to do our part to support ukraine against russia s illegal and unprovoked invasion. we have done that by providing heavy battle tanks and most recently long range weapons, hopefully all countries can continue to support ukraine, russia s act of barbarism is causing untold suffering to millions of people, it s right that we collectively stand up to it and i will be heading off to the nato summit next next week where we will be discussing with our allies, how we can strengthen our support for ukraine. so what is the convention on cluster munitions? it s an international treaty that prohibits all use, transfer, production, and stockpiling of
the claims in the sun newspaper, allege the unnamed male presenter, paid the teenager tens of thousands of pounds. it s understood the corporation is investigating the allegations, and the star is currently not scheduled to be on air in the coming days. our correspondent graham satchelljoins us. what do we know? as you say, these allegations first appeared in the british newspaper, the sun newspaper. they are spoken to the mother of this teenage boy, is now 20 boa 17 we understand in this first i did that it happened. the allegation was the unnamed bbc presenter paid significant sums of money over a period of time for explicit photographs. these allegations are serious, notjust ethically or reputation only but legally as well because in british law it is inoffensive to share, create or possess pictures like that of anyone under the age of 18. and in tomorrow s paper the sun is giving more detail of the kind of things that were allegedly exchanged between the unnamed presenter
speaking at a press conference at the end of the trip. the us and china have significant disagreements. those disagreements need to be communicated clearly and directly. but president biden and i do not see the relationship between the us and china through the frame of great power conflict. we believe that the world is big enough for both of our countries to thrive. both nations have an obligation to responsibly manage this relationship, to find a way to live together and sharing global prosperity. i spoke to rupert wingfield hayes. several items were onjanet yellen s agenda, among them diplomatic ties, and easing of economic tension. how much progress does it seem she has made? well, from what she said in her press conference in beijing this morning and what we have heard from chinese officials i think this is about as positive as we could expect. i don t think anybody was expecting any major breakthroughs, but as she said in her press conference, they have had a direct, i t